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“Bonnaroo's hometown — small-town Coffee County living on the I-24 line between Nashville and Chattanooga”
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The quick answer
Manchester is the Coffee County seat on I-24, midway between Nashville and Chattanooga and about an hour from downtown. It hosts the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Old Stone Fort archaeological site. The economy leans on manufacturing, logistics, and the nearby Arnold Engineering Development Complex.
Manchester is the county seat of Coffee County, with a 2020 census population of 12,213 (estimated near 14,000 by 2026), sitting right on Interstate 24 about midway between Nashville and Chattanooga. The town is best known nationally as the host city of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, held each June on a nearby farm, during which the local population temporarily swells toward 100,000. Day to day, Manchester has a sparse, small-town feel where most residents own their homes, anchored by a historic town square, the Little Duck River Greenway, Fred Deadman Park, and Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park. The local economy leans on advanced manufacturing, logistics, and the nearby Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), a major aerospace and defense testing installation; other employers include Coffee County industrial-park firms. Most homes inside Manchester are zoned to Manchester City Schools for the elementary and middle grades and to Coffee County Schools (Coffee County Central High School) for high school. For out-of-state movers, it offers a small-town setting with a genuine commute of roughly an hour each way to Nashville.
110 homes for sale in Manchester right now
Active listings as of 2026-10-17 · Source: Realtracs via MLS GRID
Source: Realtracs via MLS GRID · retrieved 2026-09-06
1 / 6$415,000
2657 Maple Springs Rd
Manchester, TN, 37355
Single Family Residence · Acreage · Main-level primary
“Beautiful 3-bedroom, 3-bath brick home situated on 1.91 acres in a peaceful country…”
9 days on market
Listed by RE/MAX 1st Realty · MLS# 3515293
Active · (931) 728-5552
1 / 5$449,000
0 Cole Ridge Road
Manchester, TN, 37355
Noah's Farm · Acreage · Single level
“Great new construction on 5 acres with easy access to I-24 and Hwy. 41 nestled in the…”
12 days on market
Listed by Keller Williams Realty - Murfreesboro · MLS# 2528814
Active · (615) 895-8000
1 / 6$2,650,000
2216 Sp Anderson Rd
Manchester, TN, 37355
Sp Anderson · Waterfront view · Acreage
“Unbelievable Private Estate For Sale for $2,650,000 with to 65 acres. Discover your dream…”
13 days on market
Listed by Century 21 Coffee County Realty & Auction · MLS# 3611513
Active · (931) 455-3000
$1,400,000
2216 Sp Anderson Rd
Manchester, TN, 37355
Sp Anderson · Acreage · Horse property
“Unbelievable Private Estate For Sale for $1,400,000 with to 7.34 acres. Discover your…”
13 days on market
Listed by Century 21 Coffee County Realty & Auction · MLS# 3611511
Active · (931) 455-3000
↓ $4,000 · Oct 16$319,900
37 Laurel View St
Manchester, TN, 37355
Laurel View · Single level · Main-level primary
“HOMEOWNERSHIP MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK! Qualified buyers may be eligible for THDA…”
14 days on market
Listed by Harney Realty, LLC · MLS# 3611078
Active · (615) 624-7529
↓ $4,000 · Oct 16$364,900
69 Laurel View St
Manchester, TN, 37355
Laurel View · Main-level primary · New construction
“HOMEOWNERSHIP MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK! Qualified buyers may be eligible for THDA…”
14 days on market
Listed by Harney Realty, LLC · MLS# 3611079
Active · (615) 624-7529
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Questions people ask about Manchester
Manchester is Bonnaroo's hometown — the Music and Arts Festival is held each June on a farm just outside town, and for one week the population of Coffee County changes completely. The rest of the year it is a small county town on I-24, roughly halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga.
The other landmark is Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park, a roughly two-thousand-year-old American Indian ceremonial earthwork on the Duck River, with waterfalls and trails. Fred Deadman Park and the Little Duck River Greenway connect the parks, schools and town square. The Arnold Engineering Development Complex is close enough to be a meaningful part of the local job base.
Orientation: Coffee County is southeast of Rutherford County on I-24, so from Nashville you pass Murfreesboro and keep going. Murfreesboro is roughly the halfway point, and that matters — for a lot of Manchester residents it is the practical big-city destination rather than Nashville.
Practically, this is a small market with a mix of older in-town housing and newer subdivisions such as Spring House Estates and Stonehenge near the Old Stone Fort. Little Leaf Farms' greenhouse campus is the marquee project currently reshaping the local economy.
About 64 to 65 miles via I-24, roughly an hour to downtown Nashville in light traffic and longer during weekday Nashville and Murfreesboro rush hours. Manchester sits at Exit 111, directly on the interstate, so at least the access is simple.
As a daily drive it is demanding. The realistic version for most people here is that Murfreesboro — half the distance — is the regular trip, Nashville is occasional, and Chattanooga is about the same distance in the other direction if that matters to you.
We don't rate schools and we don't characterize any area as safe or otherwise — those are your calls to make, from the official record, and an agent who makes them for you is doing you a disservice. What we will do is hand you the primary sources and get out of the way.
Zoning is set by address, not by subdivision name, so the district's own school-locator tool is the only answer that holds for the specific house you're looking at. Our sources page links the Tennessee Department of Education report card, the district lookups, and the official crime-data portals, with no commentary from us on any of them.
What's changing in Manchester
Updated October 2026Little Leaf Farms, the controlled-environment lettuce grower, chose Manchester for its first Tennessee location: a nearly $75 million, 215-acre campus at the Manchester Industrial Park expected to create 318 jobs. In August 2026 the company began commissioning the first-phase 20-acre greenhouse and planted the first seeds, ahead of the original fall 2026 target, with an official opening planned in the coming months.
The standout current development in Manchester, Coffee County, is the Little Leaf Farms Tennessee campus, announced June 30, 2025 by the company and the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD). It is Little Leaf Farms' first Tennessee location, joining the company's existing greenhouse operations in Massachusetts (where it was founded) and Pennsylvania.
Scope and size: The project sits on a 215-acre campus at the Manchester Industrial Park. At announcement, the company described an initial 40 acres of greenhouses with an option to expand to 80 acres. Its August 2026 update describes the first phase as a 20-acre greenhouse, with space on the Tennessee campus to expand to 80 acres. The investment figure cited by the state and company is nearly $75 million.
Jobs: TNECD and the company put job creation at 318 new jobs over five years (some early local coverage rounded this to '300 jobs'). The company's Tennessee careers page says it is accepting applications for both corporate and production roles, with more roles posted as the greenhouse launch approaches.
What it produces: The facility uses controlled environment agriculture (CEA), growing hydroponic packaged leafy greens (baby lettuce) in greenhouses year-round. At announcement the company said the Tennessee campus would more than double its production capacity and serve the Midwest, Southeast and Texas markets. In August 2026 the company described the Manchester greenhouse as the highest-volume indoor leafy-greens facility in the world.
Developer/builder: Little Leaf Farms (founder and CEO Paul Sellew) owns the project. VB Greenhouses built the greenhouse and its heating and cooling systems, and PB Tec handled LED lighting, water systems and electrical work; both are part of Atrium Agri.
Timeline and status: The first greenhouse steel went up in early November 2025. On August 13, 2026, Little Leaf Farms announced that it had begun commissioning the Manchester greenhouse and that the first seeds were planted, ahead of the originally anticipated fall 2026 launch, after the company accelerated the timeline in response to demand from retailers and consumers. The company said it will celebrate the official opening in the coming months; no date had been announced as of that update.
Public support: The State of Tennessee and local economic-development partners supported the project. Separately, in January 2025 the Industrial Board of Coffee County was awarded $1,610,450 in TNECD Site Development Grant funding to improve infrastructure at the Manchester Industrial Park, the same park where Little Leaf Farms is located.
Other Manchester Industrial Park activity (smaller than Little Leaf Farms): Aspen Technologies announced a polyurethane foam molding plant ($5.1 million investment, 161 jobs over five years), and Dot Foods opened a redistribution facility at 600 Manchester Industrial Parkway with a ribbon-cutting on July 30, 2024. Coffee County has also pursued an I-24 industrial 'megasite'; as of the available reporting it is in site-preparation and zoning stages without a committed anchor tenant.
Manchester's recent additions cluster on the historic downtown square and along the Hillsboro Boulevard corridor near I-24. Arrivals since 2025 include a steakhouse, two coffee concepts, a food-truck-turned-storefront, a restaurant in the former Oak Restaurant space, a Panera, a Jimmy John's, a Wawa on Campground Road and a home-decor shop on Murfreesboro Highway, with a Dairy Queen under construction on Woodbury Highway.
Bakery-cafe on Hillsboro Boulevard, the first Panera location in Manchester. It serves soups, salads, sandwiches and bakery items, and opened at 6 a.m. on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
Restaurant · opened April 30, 2026
Family-owned sandwich shop at 2526 Hillsboro Blvd serving made-to-order subs for pickup and delivery. It opened on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, following several months of construction.
Restaurant · opened April 8, 2026
Brick-and-mortar restaurant on Manchester's downtown square from the local couple behind the Heaven in Your Mouth food truck. The storefront is their move from the truck into a permanent dining room.
Restaurant · opened October 2025
American steakhouse on the downtown square at 119 S Irwin St from Chef Brett Binninger-Schwartz, a Season 21 Hell's Kitchen finalist, and his wife Ashley. It serves dinner Wednesday through Sunday, with brunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Restaurant · opened September 2025
Sit-down coffee bar on Manchester's historic downtown square, opened by Renee Holt. It serves coffee and espresso drinks alongside pastries.
Coffee · opened August 2025
Drive-thru coffee stand at 22 Kimberly Lane, just off I-24 near the Hillsboro Boulevard corridor. The menu covers specialty coffee, infused energy drinks, teas, smoothies and shakes.
Coffee · opened summer 2025
Restaurant opened by longtime restaurateurs Bill and Laura Medley in the former Oak Restaurant space in Manchester.
Restaurant · opened February 2025
Dairy Queen under construction on Woodbury Highway, developed by Jaie Damron of Tullahoma with Atlas Construction as the builder. Crews broke ground in late July 2026 and the build was estimated to take about five months.
Restaurant · under construction as of July 2026
Convenience store and food retailer at 24 Campground Road, which opened October 14, 2026 with a ribbon-cutting at 8:30 a.m. It is Wawa's fifth Tennessee store and sells made-to-order hoagies, built-to-order coffee and bakery items.
Grocery / Food hall · opened October 14, 2026
Home-décor shop at 320B Murfreesboro Highway in Manchester, opened in June 2026 by owner Elizabeth Sunday. It stocks home-décor items priced from about $3 to under $100.
Retail · opened June 2026
Figures reviewed July 2026. We pull current, address-level comparables before any offer.
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We do not publish a single median for Manchester; ask us for live comparables. Call 615-265-1000 and we'll pull current closed comparable sales, with their source and date, for the specific neighborhood and price point you're considering.
Manchester is approximately About 64-65 miles via I-24 W; roughly 1 hour to downtown Nashville in light traffic, longer during weekday Nashville/Murfreesboro rush hours. Murfreesboro is roughly the halfway point. from downtown Nashville, depending on traffic and your specific route.
Manchester is the seat of Coffee County, a town of roughly 12,000–14,000 people on I-24 best known as the home of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the roughly 2,000-year-old Old Stone Fort archaeological site on the Duck River. It's commonly a fit for Buyers seeking a small-town setting on I-24, Commuters comfortable with an hour-plus drive on I-24, Manufacturing, logistics, and AEDC/aerospace-defense workers, Outdoor and music-festival enthusiasts (Old Stone Fort, Bonnaroo), People wanting a small-town, county-seat lifestyle.
Areas commonly searched in Manchester include Forest Mill / Ragsdale, Manchester South, Bryan Mill / Mud Creek, Baucom, Spring House Estates (new construction), Stonehenge by Ole South (new construction, near Old Stone Fort). We can pull recent comparable sales and tell you what's currently driving demand in each, so you can decide what fits.
The Will Johnson Team (eXp Realty) works Manchester regularly — a 5.0-rated team on Google and Zillow, RealTrends Verified 2026, licensed in Tennessee since 2013, and quoted as an expert source by CBS MoneyWatch and Bottom Line Personal. Call 615-265-1000 to talk through buying or selling in Manchester — the first conversation carries no commitment.
Manchester is Bonnaroo's hometown — the Music and Arts Festival is held each June on a farm just outside town, and for one week the population of Coffee County changes completely. The rest of the year it is a small county town on I-24, roughly halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga. The other landmark is Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park, a roughly two-thousand-year-old American Indian ceremonial earthwork on the Duck River, with waterfalls and trails. Fred Deadman Park and the Little Duck River Greenway connect the parks, schools and town square. The Arnold Engineering Development Complex is close enough to be a meaningful part of the local job base.
Orientation: Coffee County is southeast of Rutherford County on I-24, so from Nashville you pass Murfreesboro and keep going. Murfreesboro is roughly the halfway point, and that matters — for a lot of Manchester residents it is the practical big-city destination rather than Nashville. Practically, this is a small market with a mix of older in-town housing and newer subdivisions such as Spring House Estates and Stonehenge near the Old Stone Fort. Little Leaf Farms' greenhouse campus is the marquee project currently reshaping the local economy.
About 64 to 65 miles via I-24, roughly an hour to downtown Nashville in light traffic and longer during weekday Nashville and Murfreesboro rush hours. Manchester sits at Exit 111, directly on the interstate, so at least the access is simple. As a daily drive it is demanding. The realistic version for most people here is that Murfreesboro — half the distance — is the regular trip, Nashville is occasional, and Chattanooga is about the same distance in the other direction if that matters to you.
We don't rate schools and we don't characterize any area as safe or otherwise — those are your calls to make, from the official record, and an agent who makes them for you is doing you a disservice. What we will do is hand you the primary sources and get out of the way. Zoning is set by address, not by subdivision name, so the district's own school-locator tool is the only answer that holds for the specific house you're looking at. Our sources page links the Tennessee Department of Education report card, the district lookups, and the official crime-data portals, with no commentary from us on any of them.
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About the authors
Will Johnson leads The Will Johnson Team at eXp Realty, serving buyers and sellers across Middle Tennessee — Manchester, Nashville, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Sumner County, Brentwood, Franklin, Mount Juliet, Murfreesboro and the surrounding communities. A U.S. Army veteran who served 14 years and rose to the rank of Major, and a former ICU nurse and nurse anesthetist (CRNA) who graduated with a 4.0 from MTSA, he has been licensed in Tennessee since 2013 (license #330494); in the last 12 months (as of 2026) the team has closed $27.7 million in volume across 64 transactions. The team holds a 5.0 rating on Google and Zillow, is RealTrends Verified 2026, has been featured as an expert source by CBS MoneyWatch and Bottom Line Personal, and can be reached at 615-265-1000.
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